this is frankly really scary. if you’re in a socialist org, please make sure that they’re not so lax with security like this. also, why the actual fuck are they using google products. we are fucking doomed here in the west man. To be clear I think this is probably more on the local chapter of your org than the national org, but even then I really think national orgs need to be giving out a lot more training about this kind of thing, and quite frankly booting out the leadership of local chapters if they’re lax like this.
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PSL security culture: I left almost a year ago, their members locally know I don’t like them, but I’m still in some shared folder where I can see sensitive event and recruiting information
I highly recommend to the people joining orgs to take serious steps and ask questions around security. What if this got into the wrong hands? Out of courtesy I’m censoring the names. I have plenty more screenshots of events in case they try to refute this but I recommend they just hold this L quietly
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The security concern is understandable and we should take necessary measures and keep important things between trusted people in real life, but we need to be honest with ourselves that we are under surveillance at all times anyways.
We’ve expressed more than communist sympathies online and in real life. We are high on the watch list (that literally everyone is on anyways).
Organizing definitely has pig and fed supervision and even infiltration. You should assume there is someone untrustworthy around you at all times.
But this does not mean we stop organizing, or slow down, or cower. If we have this weird pursuit of perfect privacy, we will do absolutely nothing. Because it doesn’t exist.
At some point we need to break through this fear of “getting got” because of bad security and recognize that it doesn’t take anything for the feds and pigs to do terrible things anyways. If you’re actually organizing in real life, if you’re actually active, you’re eventually going to need to be clear on your goals. And that right there blows your “security”.
If we are too scared to put ourselves in ANY amount of danger just through supervision, how do you expect us to actually carry a revolution forward?
I’d ask you all to consider the concept of revolutionary suicide, or at the very least, revolutionary sacrifice. It’s true, engaging in this may lead us to prison or death. And no amount of security is going to prevent that from happening when the going gets going. Is that worth it to you? Do you have the drive to live a life free that is so strong you’d give up everything for it? I say this not as a finger pointing or “you’re weak” thing, but a genuine question. I don’t blame you if the answer is no.
Once again, before I get crucified, I am not advocating against basic security measures to filter out feds and keep classified information in the hands of trusted people. I am pushing back at the overall theme I see specifically with online lefties that prioritizes security so heavily that we can’t share our names or general locations with these established orgs as if the feds don’t have this already. I’m pushing back against the overwhelming fear some people seem to have (justifiably) because we don’t need that right now. We need resistance. And that is dangerous.
physical location is most needed to be kept safe from right wing local stochastic terrorists rather than feds at least, you’re right about that. The big thing here, that i more meant to focus on, is that they let some random person who left the party get access to sensitive information for months, that is extremely bad, just because I might be on a fed list somewhere, doesn’t mean i want to be doxxed by a bitter former party member and face repercussions from anticommunist locals. I advocate for keeping the most sensitive information (like if your group is going to go sabotage something, etc.) off of computers and kept person to person anyways
great thing we should all be considering, but one I’m not sure you can truly answer until the feds have got you in a jail cell threatening you with life if you dont betray your comrades to become their informant (as an example of extreme situation). I think I’m ok with it, but am I actually? we will see.
First part makes definite sense. Completely unacceptable to have that kind of thing just laying around for anyone, especially considering the pettiness that is sometimes present within leftist organizing lol.
Last part also good point. Yeah, I mean, shit we don’t really know until we are there. But I think we can get more and more of an idea and closer to saying yes as we get more involved in this organizing. We are in danger for before the feds have us in the cell. But yet we continue. That to me signals something brave